Touché Turtle

Touché Turtle (voiced by Bill Thompson and later by Don Messick) is the star of a series of short cartoons produced as a companion to Wally Gator and Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har. Touché and his canine sidekick, Dum Dum, match wits with villains and help innocents in distress.

Personality
Out of the pair, Touché was the brave, if not entirely competent leader who'd always rush in, shouting his catchphrase, "Touché away!" He wasn't always bright (although considerably smarter than Dum-Dum), but he's an accomplished fencer and is able to hold his own against other sword-fighting opponents. One quirk of Touché's was his mispronunciation of the words "sword" ; he always pronounced the "w" instead of leaving it silent. Another word he sometimes mispronounced was "en garde", pronouncing the "e" at the end instead of leaving it silent.

Appearance
Touché Turtle is a short green turtle with a yellow green snout and underside. Unlike Dum-Dum, he doesn't wear any other clothes except a white hat with a red plumed feather in it. As a fencer, he carries a standard fencing foil into battle, although his fencing foil has a noticeable dent in the tip.

Powers and Abilities
Touché is an accomplished fencer and can actually hold his own against sword-wielding opponents. Although he often uses a fencing foil to fight opponents (or to threaten them in order to make them surrender), he'll also use wits and other items such as anvils, fire hoses or bug spray if the situation calls for it. It's unknown how powerful he is, but the opening shot of the series has him swinging in on a rope and fighting with a lightning bolt before destroying it.

Touché also had a telephone in his shell, which would ring at inopportune times when people called for help. Touché would always politely excuse himself, duck into his shell and then take the call regardless of where he was at the time.

Trivia

 * His "birthday" is August 10th.
 * Touché was originally going to be a rabbit named "Hairbrain Hare" (with several similarities in design to Ricochet Rabbit) but the concept was eventually scrapped.
 * Touché also appeared in the movie Yogi's Ark Lark and its spin-off series Yogi's Gang. Due to Bill Thompson's death in 1971, Don Messick voiced him in that series. Messick would later voice Touché again when he appeared in Yogi's Treasure Hunt.
 * Touché and Dum-Dum appeared in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law video game adaptation as cameos.